My wife and I served as evangelical, protestant missionaries in France for eleven and a half years, after which I became the pastor and director of a Christian school in a French-speaking evangelical church, L'Eglise Evangelique de Saint Jerome, in Quebec, Canada. After serving in Quebec for five years, we then moved to Greenville, South Carolina, where I became the pastor of the First Evangelical Church of Greenville. In 1995, we moved to Tallahassee, Florida, where I eventually assumed the management of the family business, and remained there until 2012, when our family moved to Meridian, Idaho. My wife and I have six children. These short devotionals are born out of the loss of one of these children in particular, with the hope and prayer that they will serve to encourage and inspire those who read them in their walk with Christ. God bless you all, and may we finish well the race set before us.
“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace; that brings good tidings of good, that publishes salvation.” Isaiah 51:7 Dear Ones: That which is “beautiful” to God may not be that which is so for man. The reason is because of the worth of it in…
“There is a lad here, which has five barley loaves, and two small fishes; but what are they among so many?” John 6:9 Dear Ones: What would be the response of God if the believer came before His throne of grace, and asked Him: “Lord, what are you going to do?” Scripture tells us that…
“Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds.” Colossians 4:3 Dear Ones: The letter to the Colossians was written by the Apostle Paul during his first imprisonment in Rome. It this there, in those very…
“I have looked, and behold, a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof.” Zechariah 4:2 Dear Ones: Through the prophet Isaiah, the Lord seeks to give to His people Israel, comfort in…
“Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for Me?” Jeremiah 32:27 Dear Ones: With every revelation of God that we see in the Scriptures comes with it a call to respond to it. Often, if not always, the revelation or vision of God, corresponds to a…
“Why do the heathen rage…,” “…he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.” Psalm 2:1, John 3:36 Dear Ones: In the world in which we live, there are a great many spiritual “constants.” These are truths, and realities, which are not changed or altered by…
“Look unto Abraham your father, and to Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.” Isaiah 51:2 Dear Ones: How does God make a man or woman of faith? In the book of Isaiah, the Lord says: “Hearken (Listen) to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that…
“According as His divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness…” 2 Peter 1:3 Dear Ones: How is that which is divine, that which is of God, known and experienced in the life? It is by walking on two feet, one being “surrender” to Christ’s authority, obeying Him, and…
“The Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind.” 1 Kings 19:11 Dear Ones: The wind is a very powerful thing. The effect that it has on the sea is phenomenal, in that its…
“Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.” 2 Timothy 2:1 Dear Ones: Strength is a great essential in the spiritual conflict in which the believer finds himself. It is a strength which is from heaven, communicated to us by the Holy Spirit, and lived by an attitude of…